LJ Smith
It seems all the rumours about LJS being fired from writing The Vampire Diaries are true. She was hired to write the series for Alloy Entertainment and for whatever reason they're obviously not happy with her and have chosen to continue with a ghostwriter.
I'm a little flabbergasted at learning she never owned the rights to the books (this applies to the Secret Circle series too), the fact that she was fired and the way that she let the fans know. Such a mess. I'm also hugely uncomfortable with how she talked about the relationships between the characters to fans in the letters that started all this off. It just all seems so immature and fannish on her part.
I never did read the newer books in the series because I found that her style had changed and I simply didn't enjoy them so much. Maybe it's because there's some genuinely very talented fanfic authors in the LJS fandom who took her world(s) and created some beautiful stories whilst she was on her decade long hiatus.
Regardless, my teenage self is in mourning! I was reading about Vamps, Wolves and Witches when it wasn't in Vogue.
I'm a little flabbergasted at learning she never owned the rights to the books (this applies to the Secret Circle series too), the fact that she was fired and the way that she let the fans know. Such a mess. I'm also hugely uncomfortable with how she talked about the relationships between the characters to fans in the letters that started all this off. It just all seems so immature and fannish on her part.
I never did read the newer books in the series because I found that her style had changed and I simply didn't enjoy them so much. Maybe it's because there's some genuinely very talented fanfic authors in the LJS fandom who took her world(s) and created some beautiful stories whilst she was on her decade long hiatus.
Regardless, my teenage self is in mourning! I was reading about Vamps, Wolves and Witches when it wasn't in Vogue.